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Atlantic Pale Ale, Mark II

5 lbs dry malt extract, light
1/4 lb crystal malt, 20L
1/2 lb crystal malt, 40L
1/4 lb crystal malt, 60L
1 oz Perle hop pellets, about 7.6% AA
1 oz Amarillo hop pellets
1 oz Cascade hop pellets
1 oz East Kent Goldings hop pellets
EasYeast British Ale Yeast (liquid)

Steeped grains for 20 minutes or so at 160 degrees in 1 gallon spring water, give or take. I probably should have let it go a little farther as I don't think I extracted the sugars fully. Added the steeping water to 3 gallons of water heating in the pot and sparged out the grain bag. Added extract and Perle at boil. Added 1/2 ounce of each of the other hops at 45 minutes, and another half ounce of each at 59 minutes.

Removed to water bath, and added to about 2 gallons of water in fermenting bucket to make about 5.2 gallons. Pitched yeast at 78 degrees.

Fermentation began within 24 hours and had begun to slow down within 48 - nice and vigorous.

[wik] Very delicious, which is nice. Good hop balance, nice ale character. Good yeast! Some esters, some minerals, and little to no masking of hop profile. Johno say "yes!" The only issue is that, for the third time, I have a little benign mold growth in the bottles. THIS time, it wasn't bad enough to ruin the beer, but I suppose it will in time. Time to replace my buckets!